What are you listening 2 now?

[Iota]

[Boulez ...] What a composer.

Completely agree. I don't like *absolutely* everything he's done, but he's got his own plinth somewhere in my brain, an extraordinary composer.

Happy new year, please continue to post here, I've enjoyed reading your posts on baroque music.

+1

[Traverso]

Ahaha, don't remind me! It really is a tough choice, but I think I'm ever so slightly leaning toward the Karajan.

Speaking of HvK...



Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 in F minor, op.36. Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic. I've never been moved by any of Tchaikovsky's symphonies, and listening to this now is no exception. Still, I'm glad to have a solid recording of these three famous symphonies in my library.

I have this edition,no libretto and it is the best sounding  (latest remastering) I purchased it a few years ago after  eclusively listening to Solti wich is very good.



If you purchase the Solti,try the second remastering.It must be found not too expensive and it has a full libretto.

[San Antone]

[Todd]

[HIPster]

This morning:

[asin]B002QJ51UM[/asin]

[SonicMan46]

 

Hi San Antone - thanks for posting the Vanitas - played from Spotify and really enjoyed - stimulated me to continue my morning listenting w/ another Baroque recording, this time Albinoni Op. 2, inserted above.  Dave

[HIPster]

Thanks San Antone! 

This looks like something I would enjoy. 

Hi Sonic Dave!  And that Albinoni looks really nice as well. 

[San Antone]

Hi San Antone - thanks for posting the Vanitas - played from Spotify and really enjoyed - stimulated me to continue my morning listenting w/ another Baroque recording, this time Albinoni Op. 2, inserted above.  Dave

Thanks San Antone! 

This looks like something I would enjoy. 

I enjoyed it and also found a number of other recordings devoted to Italian Early Baroque. 

Like this one:



This is a period and genre I have only just begun to explore, but am finding it very rewarding.

[Maestro267]

Part 3 of my 2019 Review:

Lajtha: Symphony No. 9
Pécs SO/Pasquet

Simpson: Symphony No. 5
Royal PO/Handley

Tippett: Symphony No. 1
Bournemouth SO/Hickox

[André]

Tchaikovsky 4 and Serenade for Strings.

[vers la flamme]

Claude Debussy: Jeux: Poème Dansé. Simon Ratle, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

[Todd]

[kyjo]

Great stuff! I was just listening to the A minor quartet the other night (in the Doric SQ recording on Chandos). Such an inventive work full of rhythmic vitality.

[Traverso]

The city Waites

How the world Wags ,social music for a 17th century Englishman (are there any left?) 

[staxomega]

Tchaikovsky - Serenade For Strings. Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Gerard Korsten.

[Todd]

[Mandryka]

It's so sweet it's disarming.

I wonder if Feldman knew about those moments in Prokofiev sonatas where time seems to stand still. It's a great shame that Richter never played Feldman. Both these musicians, Knoop and Orazbayeva, are tremendous, and the sound engineering is superb.

[vers la flamme]

It's so sweet it's disarming.

I wonder if Feldman knew about those moments in Prokofiev sonatas where time seems to stand still. It's a great shame that Richter never played Feldman. Both these musicians, Knoop and Orazbayeva, are tremendous, and the sound engineering is superb.

Which Prokofiev sonatas? I'd love to hear what you mean

[Florestan]

It's so sweet it's disarming.

I wonder if Feldman knew about those moments in Prokofiev sonatas where time seems to stand still.

The first historical instance of a musical work that I'm aware of in which the time seems to stand still is Schubert's Notturno in E-flat major, Op. 148 (D. 897) for violin, celo and piano. 1827.

[vers la flamme]

Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.8 in B-flat major, op.84. Sviatoslav Richter. Not unlike a few other towering B-flat major sonatas in its gravitas and immense power. And yes, there are moments throughout the first movement where time comes to a standstill. Devastating performance.